On Monday, 24 June 2019 15:53:04 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 190624 Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 24 June 2019 12:17:51 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:36 +0100, Mick wrote: > >>> Could someone more knowledgeable in Plasma/KDE shenanigans please > >>> explain how I can end up with a workable USB wireless dongle, which I > >>> can enable/disable at will? > >> > >> Set USE="-wireless" for powerdevil > > > > Excellent! This is what I was looking for. Thank you Neil. :-) > > Finally, a good example of the value of 'USE-"-* ... "' in make.conf ! > I had no idea of any of this & don't need 'powerdevil', > but the '-wireless' flag has been set all along anyway (grin). > > Yes, I know there are opposite cases too.
TBH the opposite cases must be overwhelmingly more that this one. If it were a single package *and* you know which one it is, then it is easy to look at its USE flags and make a call to affect its functionality. In my example here I couldn't see the wood for the Plasma/KDE trees, until Neil pointed the particular tree I should be barking under ... :-) I still wouldn't apply a 'USE-"-* ... "' approach unless I was looking for a way to spend many hours contemplating the causes of breaking stuff and then breaking them again after an update/upgrade. -- Regards, Mick
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